What you build first determines everything after.
This is where your lettering exploration begins.

“Lettering Crash Course” is a foundational workshop that provides beginners with a clear, reliable starting point and helps lettering practitioners deepen their knowledge, refine their approach, and expand their style.

We begin by focusing on how letters are constructed: structure, proportion, space, and rhythm. From there, we move into controlled variations and how they generate a wide range of styles.

Through lectures, demonstrations, hands-on exercises, and feedback, you will start to see letters differently and make decisions with more clarity. The emphasis is on building a clear framework you can rely on, so your work becomes consistent and intentional rather than guesswork.

By the end of this month-long workshop, you will be able to construct letterforms from the ground up and systematically develop variations with clarity and control.

  • $640

  • 4 weeks of focus foundational buildling on lettering

    Sunday: Full-day workshops (10:00–17:00)

  • 4–8 participants

  • Online (live with recording available for 3 months)

Schedule

This bootcamp is offered across time zones (America, Europe, Asia) so you can choose what works best for you.

2026

July: Europe
(CET / CEST)

September: Europe
(CET / CEST)

October: America
(EST / EDT)

Dec: Asia
(Taiwan time)

2027

January: Asia
(Taiwan time)

March: Europe
(CET / CEST)

June: Europe
(CET / CEST)

Curriculum

Part 1 - Foundation
Part 2 - Styles

The curriculum builds step by step. Each session builds on the previous one, layering different aspects of lettering so you start to see how they connect. Over time, you begin to recognize what changes, what holds, and how structure, proportion, and detail shape the result.

Week 1
Foundation I

Letter anatomy
Structure and proportion
Observation

Week 2
Foundation II

Consistency
Uppercase
Details, refinement

Who This Is For?

  • Beginners who want a structured entry point into lettering

  • Practitioners who want to strengthen their fundamentals and break out of stylistic limitations

  • Designers and art directors looking to expand their typographic skillset

Week 3
Flourishing

Controlled variation
Range building

Workshop Focus

  • Understand the core principles behind letter construction

  • Break down and rebuild letterforms with intention

  • Learn how to generate variation by adjusting one factor at a time

  • Develop a sharper, more critical eye for detail

  • Build flexibility across styles instead of relying on a single approach

  • Gain the ability to make informed design decisions rather than guessing

You leave with a set of experiments, but more importantly, a clearer sense of how lettering actually works and how to approach it on your own.

Week 4
Styles &
Independent Study

Serif construction
Applying the system

Why 8 People max?

I believe in mentorship. With a small group, I can actually see what’s happening in your work. How you draw, where things fall apart, where you hesitate, what keeps repeating without you noticing. That’s the kind of feedback that matters.

It also changes how we learn together. You’re not only hearing from me, you see how others approach their work, where they struggle, and how they work through it. That becomes part of your own learning.

6 people feel like the right number for me to do this properly, and to provide each of you with the level of attention I care about.

Materials

  • Mechanical pencil

  • Conventional pencil (6B preferred or anything softer than 2B)

  • Eraser (Regular & Mono Tombow Zero eraser)

  • Clear Ruler with markings

  • Markerpaper (at least A4 / Letter size)

  • Optional: iPad with Procreate - All of us will begin with hands-on, using conventional tools. For those who are already proficient in Procreate, you can choose to draw on an iPad later on. (We can always discuss troubleshooting, but there will be no dedicated lesson on how to use Procreate)

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